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died February 4, 1876. He entered the navy 

 in 1825, and obtained his first commission in 

 1832. He took part in the attack upon Chuen- 

 pe, in the taking of the Bogue forts, in the 

 storming of the enemy's works close to Wham- 

 poa Reach, and in the capture of the last fort 

 protecting the approaches to Canton, and in 

 the other operations against that city. As a 

 reward for his services on that occasion, he 

 was made a commander in 1841. He obtained 

 post-rank in 1852, and went on the retired list 

 in 1864; became retired rear-admiral in 1868, 

 and vice-admiral in 1874. 



TOCQUEVILLE, HlPPOLYTE, Comte DE, a 



French senator, born in 1812 ; died in August, 

 1876. In 1871 he was elected from La Manche 

 to the National Assembly, and in 1875 was 

 elected by that body one of the life-senators, 

 the fifty-seventh, by 340 votes. He was a 

 member of the Left Centre. 



TRAUBE, LTTDWIG, a German physician, born 

 January 12, 1818; died April 11, 1876. He was 

 professor in the University of Berlin, and was 

 one of the most distinguished clinical instruc- 

 tors of the nineteenth century. 



VITALE, Count LUIGI S., an Italian states- 

 man ; died in January, 1876. He was one of 

 the earliest champions of the unity and liberty 

 of Italy. Having been appointed senator in 

 1848, he resigned a ye.-ir later when a political 

 change took place. He was again appointed 

 senator in 1860, and was for a number of 

 years secretary of the Presidential Bureau. 

 For some years previous to his death he took 

 no active part in the labors of the Senate, 

 owing to his advanced age. 



VOLKHART, WILHELM, a German artist, born 

 June 23, 1815; died March 14, 1876. He was 

 chiefly distinguished as an historical painter. 

 His best works are : " The Murder of Rizzio " 

 (1841), "Mary Stuart on the Scaffold" (1844), 

 and "The Death of Admiral Coligny " (1846). 



VOLLMER, ALEXANDER JOSEPH, a German 

 philologist, born September 26, 1803; died De- 

 cember 5, 1876. His best work is a critical 

 edition of " Gudrun " (1845). His edition of 

 the "Nibelunge Not" and "Klage" introduced 

 in 1845 the great collection of "Dichtungen 

 des deutschen Mittelalters." Together with 

 Conrad Hoffmann he published a corrected 

 edition of the " Hildebrand-Lied " (1850), and 

 in 1862 he published his corrections of the 

 fragments of the "Skeireins." 



WADDINGTON, JOSHUA, a British merchant, 

 born in York, England, in 1792; died in Val- 

 paraiso, October 11, 1876. In 1817 he went to 

 Valparaiso, where he established himself in 

 business, his house becoming one of the largest 

 on the Pacific coast of South America. 



WALLNER, FRANZ, a German actor, born Sep- 

 tember 25, 1810; died January 19, 1876. He 

 began his career as actor in 1830, with a travel- 

 ing-troupe in Krems, Austria. During a trip 

 through Germany he appeared within ten years 

 on almost every German stage of any account. 

 In 1854 he went to Berlin, where he built 



within a few years his own theatre the Wall- 

 ner-Theater which soon became one of the 

 most famous in the city. In 1868 he retired 

 to private life on account of his health. 



WALPOLE, FREDERICK, M. P., born Septem- 

 ber 18, 1822; died April 2, 1876. He entered 

 the Royal Navy in 1839, and served with dis- 

 tinction in the first Anglo-Chinese War, in the 

 India waters, and during the operations on the 

 Danube. In politics he was a Conservative. 

 He contested Lynn unsuccessfully in Novem- 

 ber, 1865, and in 1868 was returned to Parlia- 

 ment for North Norfolk. He was the author 

 of " Four Years in the Pacific," "The Ansayrii, 

 or Further East," and other works. 



WALPOLE, Sir ROBERT, born in 1808; died 

 July 12, 1876. He was a lieutenant-general, 

 and was created a K. C. B. in 1859. 



WILDE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT WILLS, Knt., 

 M. D., F. R. C. S. I., a British physician ; died 

 April 19, 1876. He was Surgeon-Oculist in 

 Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, and was 

 knighted in 1864 by the Earl of Carlisle, Lord- 

 Lieutenant of Ireland, "to mark the sense of 

 services rendered to statistical science, espe- 

 cially in connection with the Irish census." 



WINTHER, CHRISTIAN, one of the most dis- 

 tinguished Danish poets, born July 29, 1796 ; 

 died in the latter part of December, 1876. He 

 published a large number of poems, all of them 

 of great beauty. He also wrote a number of 

 novels and juvenile works, among them "Tre 

 Fortallinger " (1851), and "En Mcrskavstog" 

 (1850), and a translation of Goethe's "Rei- 

 neke Fuchs." He published a collection of his 

 poems in nine volumes (1860). The Danish 

 Diet, in 1851, granted him an annual pension 

 of 1,000 rigsdalers. 



WUTTKE, HEINRICH, a German historian, 

 born February 12, 1818; died June 14, 1876. 

 In 1848 he became a member of the Vorparla- 

 ment in Frankfort; was appointed professor 

 in the university, and elected as Robert Blum's 

 successor to the German National Assembly, 

 where he helped to found the Grossdeutsche 

 (Great German) party. He was the author of 

 numerous works, of which "Die deutschen 

 Zeitschriften und die Entstehung.der offent- 

 lichen Meinung" (1866; third edition, 1875) and 

 " Geschichte der Schrift und des Schriftthums " 

 (1 vol., 1872, et seq.) are especially valued. 



ZIEGLER, FRANZ, a Prussian politician, born 

 February 3, 1803; died October 1, 1876. As 

 Mayor of Brandenburg, in 1840, he became 

 very popular, was elected a member of the 

 National Assembly of 1848, and was the only 

 one of the tax-refusers who was arrested and 

 tried for treason. From 1864 to 1870 he was 

 a member of the Prussian Chamber of Depu- 

 ties, nnd since 1867 a member first of the 

 North-German and afterward of the German 

 Reichstag. He was the author of several 

 novels, among them " Nondum," " Landwehr- 

 mann Krille," nnd "Der Bettler vom Capitol," 

 and of a number of works on social questions. 



ZITOCALMAGLIO, ViNCENz VON, a German 



